ICDL – Perform Advanced Presentation Functions (Advanced PowerPoint 2016/2019) (24 hrs)

• Plan and design more effective presentations that have greater impact
• Use advanced features to customise layout and shows
• Use and manipulate pictures, images and drawn objects, charts/graphs in presentations
• Add sophisticated multimedia elements to presentations
• Use the powerful relating tools to link information to other applications

1. Presentation planning

Audience and environment

• Understand how audience demography and knowledge of subject impacts on planning of a presentation
• Understand venue considerations

Design, content and layout

• Understand timing considerations
• Understand that presentation dialogue is supported by graphical objects and text Understand the importance of limiting the level of detail of graphical objects and text
• Understand the importance of using a consistent design scheme and adequate colour contrast
• Be aware of accessibility design considerations

2. Slide masters and templates

Slide masters

• Insert a new slide master, new title master
• Edit slide master layouts
• Apply a custom slide master to specified slides

Templates

• Create a new template, theme
• Modify a template, theme

3. Graphical objects

Formatting drawn objects

• Apply background fill effects to a drawn object
• Apply a transparency effect to a drawn object
• Apply a 3-d effect and settings to a drawn object
• Pick up a style from a drawn object and apply it to another drawn object
• Change the default formatting for new drawn objects

Formatting pictures, images

• Adjust picture, image brightness and contrast
• Display a picture, image in greyscale, black and white, washout format
• Change colours in a picture. Restore original colours in a picture

Handling graphical objects

• Display, hide ruler, grid and guides. Move guides. Turn on, off snap objects to grip
• Position a graphical object on a slide using specified horizontal and vertical co-ordinates
• Distribute selected graphical objects horizontally, vertically relative to a slide
• Crop a graphical object
• Proportionately, disproportionately rescale a graphical object
• Convert a picture to a drawn object and edit the drawn object
• Save a graphical object as a file format
• Omit, display background graphics on a slide, slides

4. Charts and diagrams

Using charts

• Format chart title, legend, data labels, axes labels
• Change the chart type for a defined data series
• Change the gap, overlap between columns, bars in a chart
• Format columns, bars, plot area, chart area to display an image
• Change scale of value axis

Using diagrams

• Create using built-in options or other available drawing tools a diagram
• Add, move, and delete shapes in a diagram
• Add, change, and delete connectors in a flowchart

5. Multimedia

Movies, sound

• Insert movies to play automatically, on mouse click
• Insert sounds to play automatically, on mouse click

Animation

• Change custom animation effects and settings. Change sequence of custom animations in a slide
• Apply automatic settings so that bulleted points will dim to a specified colour after animation
• Animate chart elements by series, by category, by elements in series. Animate, do not animate chart grid and legend

6. Enhancing productivity

Linking, embedding

• Insert, edit, and remove a hyperlink
• Insert an action button. Modify settings to navigate to a specified slide, custom show, file, url
• Link data into a slide and display as an object, icon
• Update, break a link
• Insert an image from a file with a link to the file
• Embed data into a slide and display as an object
• Edit, delete embedded data

Importing, exporting

• Merge slide(s), presentation, word-processed outline into an existing presentation
• Save a specified slide as a file format

7. Managing presentations

Custom shows

• Create, show a named custom slide show
• Copy, edit, and delete a custom slide show

Slide show settings

• Apply timings to, remove timings from slide transitions
• Apply settings to a slide show so that it loops continuously when played, does not loop continuously when played
• Apply settings so that slides advance manually, advance using timings if present. Apply settings so that slide show is presented with animation, without animation

Slide show control

• Add, erase pen annotations during a slide show
• Display black, white screen during a slide show. Pause, restart, and end a slide show

Participants go through a structured curriculum supplemented with hands-on exercises on computers.

This course is intended for participants with ICDL certification and/or previous experience using computers and common software applications.

Prerequisites

Participants are assumed to:

• Have completed ICDL – Perform Presentation Functions

Duration : 3 days (24 hrs)
Time : 9:00am to 6:00pm

With effect from 1 Jan 2024

(A course in partnership with James Cook Institute Pte. Ltd. [formerly known as Eagle Infotech] UEN198802365N)